Medical experts have differed over the forthcoming football match between Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo. As Nigerian football fans warm up to watch live friendly football match between Super Eagles and the football team from the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, Nigerian medical doctors have expressed divergent views over the match ...

Wife of the Senate President and founder, Wellbeing Foundation, Mrs. Toyin Saraki, has called on the government to scale up border surveillance to curtail the possible spread of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), into the country.Saraki, who made this known over the weekend at the maiden edition of ‘Walk for Health Challenge’, organised by the Wor ...

Ebola outbreak has been declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s north-western territory of Bikoro.There are two confirmed cases of the Ebola virus in the affected area and 17 deaths where it is suspected, the health ministry said on Tuesday.According to BBC reports, The incident comes more than a year after an outbreak in the country kill ...

Eni Aluko has spoken out publicly for the first time since Sportsmail revealed she was paid hush-money by the Football Association — and has made a further series of sensational allegations against the organisation and England manager Mark Sampson.Chelsea star Aluko has not played for Sampson since she submitted an email complaint, in May last y ...

British nurse Pauline Cafferkey who survived the Ebola virus after contracting it while on duty in Sierra Leone in 2014 has returned to the country to see M’balu, an Eboola patient she was trying to save when she was affected.Cafferkey returned to Britain in December 2014, after six weeks volunteering with Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, West Af ...

An Ebola epidemic has been declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo with three people confirmed dead, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.An Ebola outbreak has been declared in the northeast region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The World Health Organisation says three deaths are being linked to the virus, and it is taking the s ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed Wednesday his country had developed a vaccine for the Ebola virus which has killed thousands of people in west Africa.But Putin, who is famed for his talent for headline-grabbing announcements, did not give any name for the vaccine, nor did he say how it worked, who was developing it or give details of any ...

There seems to be a major hurdle in the way that may slow down the release of 93 days movie. The film traces the lives of brave men and women who fought hard to end the Ebola epidemic in Nigeria. Produced by Steven Gukas and Bolanle Austen-Peters, the highly anticipated flick features Hollywood's Danny Glover and top-flight Nollywood actors. ...

The jubilation in Liberia after it was declared Ebola free in September, 2015 may not last long as it has recorded yet another fatality from the deadly virus.Chief medical officer Francis Kateh disclosed on Tuesday that a 15-year-old boy, Nathan Gbotoe has died of Ebola in Liberia, the first such fatality for months in a country declared free of t ...

Three new cases of Ebola have been confirmed in Liberia less than three months after the country was declared free of the virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.The three patients include a 10-year-old boy from Paynesville, a suburb of the capital Monrovia.All people with the symptom have been isolated, WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris ...

This is not good when it comes to the eradication of the Ebola virus. The facts coming from World Health Organization (WHO) has claimed that the virus can exist in the semen of male survivors for at least nine months after their initial infection appears. This is much longer than we ever thought which has raised questions on how this epidemic shou ...

According to reports Nigeria might have an Ebola scare, over a year after we successfully defeated the deadly virus which killed 7 people in Nigeria and thousands across West Africa.According to Vanguard......The University of Calabar Teaching Hospital has quarantined ten persons following the death of a patient in the hospital on Wednesday with s ...

Fear has gripped workers and patients of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) in Calabar, Cross River State over a suspected case of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). Although management of the hospital denied the development, it nevertheless, shut down the Accident and Emergency ward after the Ebola virus scare hit the health instituti ...

Two new cases of Ebola have surfaced in Sierra Leone’s Tonkolili district after a man died last week in the area where the deadly virus had not been seen for months, according to an official.The two new cases are relatives of a man who contracted the virus in mid-July, the National Ebola Response Centre’s OB Sisay said on Sunday. “We now kno ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has donated about N200 million ($1 million) for Ebola recovery and reconstruction in Africa.The president made the announcement at the International Conference on Africa’s Fight Against Ebola, in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, on Tuesday, July 21, 2015.He was represented by the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry o ...

Actor Frank Artus, who was born in Liberia and of Ghanaian origin, did not abandon his country of birth during the dreaded Ebola disease as much as others did.The actor who plays his craft in Ghana was on hand to lend his credentials to the eradication of the disease has adopted some ebola victims’ kids as a spirit of patriotism.“It’s in the ...

The moment everyone thought the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, had been eradicated from West Africa, Sierra Leone has recorded two fresh cases of the disease in the capital Freetown. This is coming three weeks after the city recorded no new case of the virus and was thought to be free and possibly making headway towards being officially declare ...

Liberia's held an official celebration of the country being declared free of Ebola. The government and the World Health Organisation made the announcement on Saturday after 42 days without a new case. During Liberia's year-long epidemic 4,700 people died - more than any other country. A public holiday was declared so pupils and workers c ...

A strange ailment has broken out and killed about 14 people in Irele Local Government Area of Ondo State.The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Dayo Adeyanju, said the disease, discovered on Wednesday, is strange and it’s symptoms include headache and loss of sight.He said local and international health institutions are already carrying out inves ...

Female Sierra Leonean students who got pregnant during the eight-month long Ebola Virus Disease induced break will not be allowed to return to school, the country's government has said.Sierra Leone's Education Minister, Minkailu Bah, said girls who are visibly pregnant will not be allowed to join their classmates in primary and secondary ...

In what appears to be a surprise to many in a time of post-Ebola pandemic, the Vice President of Sierra Leone, Samuel Sam-Sumana has voluntarily checked himself into quarantine following the death of his body guard from the menace. The office of the Vice President issued a communique that he will be checked into a quarantine facility for 21 days fo ...

A nine year old Nigerian girl has been placed under quarantine in India after showing symptoms of the Ebola Virus Disease.The unidentified child was said to be feverish and short of breath when she arrived at the Cochin International Airport in Kerala with her parents on Monday, February 2.She is currently undergoing treatment at the Ebola isolati ...

A healthcare worker who has just returned from West Africa has been diagnosed with Ebola and is being treated in hospital in Glasgow. The woman, who arrived from Sierra Leone on Sunday night, is in isolation at Glasgow’s Gartnavel Hospital.All possible contacts with the case are being investigated, including on flights to Scotland via Heathrow.T ...

The Sudanese authorities have denied 26 Nigerians entry into their country over suspicion that they were possibly infected by the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease.Hauwa’u Ibrahim Bakori, a second year student of Pharmacy at AlAhfad University for Women, Omdurman, said she and 25 others were denied entry after arriving Khartoum Airporto ...

The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdallah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud has extended a grant of US$35 million to help fight Ebola in West Africa. (Dr. Ahmed Mohamed Ali, President of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB)In a statement to the media on this occasion, Dr. Ahmed Mohamed Ali, President of the Islamic Development Bank ( ...

Time Magazine has named it’s most influential persons of 2014…and it is the health workers fighting on the front lines in West Africa countries: Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, against the deadly Ebola virus. The cover will feature five different healthcare workers who have worked to combat the disease: Dr. Kent Brantly, nurse aide Salo ...

Marking the second Ebola death in the United States, Dr. Martin Salia died at around 5 a.m. ET Monday, according to Nebraska Medicine spokesman Taylor Wilson. A legal permanent resident of the U.S., Salia was working in West Africa when he contracted the virus.Salia arrived Saturday at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. The hospital tweeted Monday ...

Sam Ogunnoiki, who works as a security guard at Stout Security Ltd headquartered in Cornwall, UK, has been told not to go to work over fears he may have Ebola after visiting Nigeria.The 46 year old British citizen, faces a three-week quarantine from his employers who told him that he needs to get the all-clear from a British doctor before he can g ...